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termkey_lookup_keyname - look up a symbolic key value for a string name

  #include <termkey.h>

  char *termkey_lookup_keyname(TermKey *tk, const char *keyname",
   TermKeySym *sym");

Link with -ltermkey.

*termkey_lookup_keyname*() looks up the symbolic key value represented by the given string name. This is a case-sensitive comparison. The symbolic value is written to the variable addressed by sym. This function is a more general form of *termkey_keyname2sym*(3) because it can recognise a symbolic key name within a longer string, returning a pointer to the remainder of the input after the key name.

Because the key names are stored in an array indexed by the symbol number, this function has to perform a linear search of the names. Use of this function should be restricted to converting key names into symbolic values during a program’s initialisation, so that efficient comparisons can be done while it is running.

termkey_lookup_keyname*() returns a pointer to the first character after a recognised name, or *NULL if the string does not begin with the name of a recognised symbolic key.

*termkey_get_keyname*(3), *termkey_keyname2sym*(3), *termkey_strpkey*(3), *termkey*(7)